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Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, on Saturday has accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a “mercenary” for the US.
Rouhani also blamed the Jewish state for assassinating one of Tehran’s prominent nuclear scientists the day before.
Rouhani, in a statement on his official website, while referring to the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh said “Once again, the wicked hands of the global arrogance, with the usurper Zionist regime as the mercenary, were stained with the blood of a son of this nation,”
The term “global arrogance” is generally used by Iran to refer to the United States.
Iran’s defence ministry said that Fakhrizadeh was “seriously wounded” when assailants targeted his car before being engaged in a gunfight with his bodyguards in an attack outside Tehran on Friday adding that Fakhrizadeh, who headed the ministry’s research and innovation organisation, was later “martyred” after medics failed to revive him.
Rouhani promised that his death “does not disrupt” Iran’s scientific progress and said the killing was due to the “weakness and inability” of Tehran’s enemies to impede its growth.
He offered condolences to “the scientific community and the revolutionary people of Iran.”
Foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday, said that there were “serious indications of an Israeli role” in the assassination.
In 2008 because of “activities and transactions that contributed to the development of Iran’s nuclear programme”, The United States slammed sanctions on Fakhrizadeh.
Also, he was once described the father of Iran’s nuclear weapons programme by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fakhrizadeh was targeted while travelling near Absard city in Tehran province’s eastern Damavand county.
The New York Times said an American official and two other intelligence officials confirmed Israel was behind the attack, without giving further details.
The assassination comes less than two months before the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden.
Biden, on the other hand has promised a return to diplomacy with Iran after four turbulent years under Donald Trump, who began reimposing crippling sanctions after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) on Friday said despite being a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party, former President Goodluck Jonathan has supported the current administration. APC Spokesman, Yekini […]
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